Amazon Narrows Alexa ‘False Wake’ Class Suit to Wiretap Claims

Amazon.com Inc. succeeded in convincing a federal court that no reasonable fact finder could support Washington Consumer Protection Act class action claims stemming from accidental Alexa recordings Amazon may have retained.

“Amazon sold recording devices for deployment in people’s homes while knowing that the devices were subject to false wakes at a rate of approximately” 1% of recordings, the US District Court for the Western District of Washington said. It’s up to a reasonable fact finder to determine for the sake of federal wiretap claims whether the resultant interceptions were intentional and if the plaintiffs should’ve known of the ...